Chapter 44 Jianjian Reflects on Life

Mu Jianjian was furious, but after finding a "reasonable identity to intervene," she regained her confidence.

"You didn't do anything, it was just me and Yuqi fighting there, why should I give you the beast core?"

Zhong Chuan was too lazy to argue with the girl and fixed his gaze on Rong Yuqi behind her.

"Rong Qi." The voice left no room for doubt.

Mu Jianjian pouted. She knew that no matter how much she said, it was useless; it all depended on the person's opinion.

If both parties are willing to give and take, then she won't interfere in these matters next time.

"Yuanyuan, thank you." Rong Yuqi took the beast core and put it into her spatial bag. Her courage was exhausted. She gave a bitter smile and dared not look up at Zhong Chuan's expression.

Although Mu Jianjian approves of Rong Yuqi's choice, she is still quite surprised. The three of them did not encounter any other spirit beasts along the way, while Zhong Chuan remained even more indifferent and silent.

Rong Yuqi, on the other hand, seemed to sense Zhong Chuan's aloofness and became restless.

The dense forest blocked out the sun, with only slivers of light filtering through the branches. A clear stream meandered down the stream. Mu Jianjian noticed Rong Yuqi's anxious mood and sighed inwardly.

She said to Zhong Chuan, "Let's go wash up together," and then pulled Rong Yuqi away.

“Yuanyuan, actually I think, maybe we should…” As the two walked further away and stopped by the river, before Mu Jianjian could speak, Rong Yuqi couldn’t wait to say it.

"Give him the beast core if you want."

Rong Yuqi was completely taken aback by the girl's answer and didn't react at all. "Huh?"

You like him, right?

Rong Yuqi's cheeks flushed red, "I...I'm a little..."

Mu Jianjian leaned closer to Rong Yuqi and smiled, "I respect all your decisions. You don't actually need to ask me what I think."

The girl's eyes were calm, and Rong Yuqi seemed encouraged as she slowly said, "He is my savior, when I was very young. So I always feel that I should give him everything good, even though we are... master and servant."

“But you’re also my savior,” Mu Jianjian squatted down, using the stream as a mirror to examine her right eye. “I didn’t intend to give you everything.”

“It’s different,” Rong Yuqi denied.

"What's different?" Mu Jianjian looked up at her. "If I'm not mistaken, you were the one who protected him through the previous levels of the secret realm, right?"

"Yes, but that's my job."

"Are you stupid! Even if he saved you when you were a child, you don't have to risk your whole life, okay?" Mu Jianjian couldn't help but let her own subjective emotions get in. "You say it's your job, but you could have had a better life before that."

"If I'm not mistaken, that person must be of very high status. You've accompanied him all this way, giving up your status and freedom, going through dangers and suffering with him, yet he's still so cold and arrogant."

"If we really owe him, can't we repay him once we finish accompanying him through the secret realm and his injuries heal?"

"You give him the beast core you obtained, your time, energy, and youth—is it going to end up giving him your life?"

As it turned out, Rong Yuqi did indeed pay with her life in the end.

Mu Jianjian realized after she finished speaking that she had been too emotional and had even revealed information that she shouldn't have known.

"Yuanyuan, you actually knew all this." Rong Yuqi looked up, moved.

As Mu Jianjian pondered how to explain, the girl opposite her said earnestly, "Guna La, the God of Darkness, is so powerful."

Mu Jianjian: ...

She touched her nose guiltily, "Of course I still respect and support your decision, it's just that when we first met you introduced yourself as 'Rong Yuqi' instead of 'Rong Qi'—"

She wants to be herself, doesn't she?

The most regrettable thing in the world is "what could have been".

Mu Jianjian thought to herself.

Looking at the girl's face, Rong Yuqi couldn't help but recall the scene when her parents came to pick her up.

The carriage stopped at the side gate of the Hehuan Palace, and two elderly people got out. The sunlight shone on the wrinkles at the corners of their eyes, and their unfamiliar words and emotions made her shrink back.

It would be a lie to say I don't yearn for it.

"Thank you, Yuanyuan." Rong Yuqi took a deep breath, as if she had made a decision, and her emotions calmed down once again.

"It's nothing, can you take a look?" Mu Jianjian propped up her right eye with her hand. "My eye is so itchy, is there something inside?"

"No," Rong Yuqi said after reading it carefully.

"Ah—" Mu Jianjian drawled, "Did I get a virus in my eye?!"

It was because of the intermittent pain in her right eye that she was almost attacked by the spirit bear just now!

At this moment, Mu Jianjian misses the main characters terribly and is heartbroken.

I'm thinking of learning some medical skills sometime, just in case.

"Yuanyuan, behind you!"

Mu Jianjian looked up and saw Rong Yuqi's terrified face and urgent voice. Just as she was about to turn around, a huge force suddenly pulled her into the depths of the dense forest!

"Splash—"

Wow, so fast!

Something strange was wrapped around her waist, so tight it made it hard for her to breathe, and the branches of the jungle kept rustling past her.

Mu Jianjian reacted quickly, using her qi to cut the thing wrapped around her waist. The moment she broke free, the tree branch grabbed her hand again.

The branches resemble five fingers of a human hand, yet they have a strange twisting quality. The bark is dry and cracked with fine marks, and you can even see small insects inside.

She turned her head and saw a "person" staring at her with lifeless eyes.

This "person" was covered in tree bark all over its body, its eyes were completely black without pupils, its nostrils were just two holes from which it exhaled breath, and leaves and vines even grew from its neck and wrapped around its entire body.

"Ha—" Mu Jianjian was completely stunned and gasped.

In that instant, the vines spread from her hands to her upper body and wrapped around her mouth!

Mu Jianjian frowned, about to take out the talisman from her spatial bag, when she slowly lost consciousness amidst a strange fragrance.

When I woke up again, it was already noon.

Mu Jianjian stared blankly at the room where she was all alone. Beneath her was a bare, hard bed without a blanket, and on the surrounding walls hung mushrooms emitting green light, as well as a wooden fence sealed with her true energy.

After trying various methods to break the seal without success, Mu Jianjian lay back down on the bed and began to contemplate life.

She decided that once she had free time after leaving the secret realm, she would study medicine!